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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. It begins with identifying where there is a gap between the number of licensed childcare slots and the number of children under the age of five needing care, and then going into the community to find prospective entrepreneurs.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A regional backbone organization— Wild Rivers Community Foundation , an affiliate of Humboldt Area Foundation—was tapped to manage the initiative in partnership with community leaders and TCE program officers and staff. A Future for Our Daughters We measure our success from the perspective of our children.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Adelante Mujeres (which means Forward, Women), the nonprofit where we work and which has operated for over two decades, seeks to answer this question. The program was launched by the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres during the Great Recession in 2008. This vision is reflected in how we conduct our entrepreneurship trainings.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In my experience as a practitioner and advocate in the field, the solidarity-economy field has focused mostly on higher education, professional skill development, popular education, and community-based adult education, mostly led by small nonprofits or training cooperatives. Ditto for coding and software development.